A Theory of Justice

John Rawls was a moral and political philosopher in the liberal tradition. He was born on February 21, 1921, in Baltimore, Maryland and died on November 24, 2002, in Lexington, Massachusetts. He studied at Princeton University. He received the Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy and the National Humanities Medal, both in 1999. When awarding Rawls his National Humanities Medal, Bill Clinton stated that Rawls’s work “helped a whole generation of learned Americans revive their faith in democracy itself.”Rawls published A Theory of Justice in 1971 and the work is credited with the rebirth of normative political philosophy.